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Advanced Training Modules

Our Advanced Training improves the quality of PhD work, creates networking opportunities regionally and nationally, and brings cutting-edge expert knowledge to the heart of doctoral training.

View Advanced Training Modules (2023/24 academic year)

Advanced Training Modules open to all MGS DTP researchers (click on the names below for further details. Modules will be in person, unless otherwise stated)
Code	Title	Credits
EDUC4240	Educational Research: Purposes, Place and Policy (29 January 2024 and 9, 16 and 23 February 2024)	20
EDUC4281	Socially Engaged Scholarship in Social Science (not running in 2023/24)	10
ENGL4158	Corpus Linguistics (2 and 4 April 2024)	10
EPID4033	Systematic Reviews (Weekly Mondays 12 February to 13 May 2024)	10
LAWW4129	Children and Research (not running in 2023/24)	10
NURS4014	Evaluating Services, Interventions and Policy (not running in 2023/24)	10
NURS4049	Mixed Methods in Health Research (ONLINE 17 and 24 May 2024)	10
NURS4075	Individual & Group Interviews (ONLINE 13 and 14 May OR in person 20 and 21 May 2024)	10
PHARM4005	Social Epidemiology: theories and methods for understanding the social determinants of health (13 and 27 March 2024)	10
POLI4122	Measurement Models (not running in 2023/24)	10
POLI4123	Structural Equation Modelling (14 and 15 March 2024)	10
POLI4130	Intermediate Quantitative Analysis (18, 20, 21 and 22 March 2024)	10
POLI4198	Multilevel Modelling for Social Research (not running in 2023/24)	10
PSGY4002	Advanced Methods in Psychology (Weekly from 2 February to 6 May 2024)	20
PSGY4013	Analytical Research Methods (Weekly from 19 February to 18 March 2024)	10
SOCI4063	Doing Ethnography (13 and 14 June 2024)	10
SOCI4064	Researching Media, Culture & Society (Not running 2023/24)	10
SOCI4068	Archival Methods (Not running 2023/24)	10
SOCI4075	Researching Public Policy and Management (Not running 2023/24)	10

View Other Specialist Modules offered by Schools and Departments

Specialist modules offered by Schools and Departments open to some MGS DTP researchers depending on prior expertise and requirements (Click on the names below for full details. Modules will be in person, unless otherwise stated).
Code	Title	Credits
LAWW4051	Research Methods in Law (Semester 1, weekly from 5 October to 7 December)	15
PSGY4004	Psychological Research in Context (will be running in 2023/24)	20
PSGY4008	Current Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience (will be running in 2023/24)	10
PSGY4009	Functional Imaging (will be running in 2023/24)	10
PSGY4014	Introduction to Programming in Matlab (will be running in 2023/24)	10
SOCI4005	Researching the Social: Contemporary Debates in Sociology (will be running in 2023/24)	20
SOCI4011	Public Management & Governance (will be running in 2023/24)	10
SOCI4017	Globalisation, Europeanisation & Public Policy (will be running in 2023/24)	10
SOCI4032	Leadership, Strategy & Performance in the Public Sector (will be running in 2023/24)	10
SOCI4052	Economic and Policy Analysis (will be running in 2023/24)	10
SOCI4069	Investigating Social Policy (will be running in 2023/24)	20
SOCI4085	Dynamics of International Social Policy (will be running in 2023/24)	10
SOCW4008	Contemporary Issues and Debates in Social Work (will be running in 2023/24)	20

Find Out About Advanced Training elsewhere in the Consortium (ESRC-funded students only)

In addition to their home institution offering, ESRC-funded students will have the option to take advanced training across the consortium. Examples include Digital Methods and Big Social Data (Warwick), Q-Methodology, A Systematic Approach for Interpretive Research Design (Birmingham); and Methodological Implications of Critical Realism (Loughborough).

Further information can be found here.

Request a Place on the Advanced Training Modules

Nottingham ESRC Doctoral Training Programmes

University Park
Nottingham
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telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4708
email: esrc-dtc@nottingham.ac.uk